what are u most excited about in half life 2?

[||Diablo||]

for me it would have to be the manipluter....imagine the the new fights that could be made online with it, amazing, oh and the story, and the weapons, and alyx, oh and stirders , they look so kewl, oh and the rag dol physics, oh and the awesome AI, oh and the graphics, oh and well i could go on all day :cheese: :bounce: :cheers: :eek: :dozey: :cool:

[FoB_Ed]

I'm most excited about it being a sequel to HL1

The GFX :)

[Pol]

cant wait!!!!! :D

[DaLys]

The manipulator! Physics will be so sweet.

[forn1x]

the new mods, imagine what TF2 / CS2 / etc will be like!

[Gunner]

I'm excited about not having to see these threads anymore...

[||Diablo||]

Originally posted by )[eVo]( Para
I'm excited about not having to see these threads anymore...

me 2 :D cuz ill be playing hl2 soon :D how about u?

[Ki||tacular]

the graphics mostly, how dynamic your surroundings will be.

[Majestic XII]

i....want....source....NOW!

[pHATE1982]

The traps...

In the e3 presentation they said there were gonna be loads of em.

mmmmm.... traps

[Infiniti]

Well, let's see...

Source
Drivable Vehicles
No more shit posts, hopefully anyway
Manipulator!
Striders!
Combine
GFX
Multiplayer
All the mods
****in around with hammer
The crazy maps where you can play with the physics.
Having the box next to my computer
Having the CD in my drive
Being able to click "Launch Half-life 2 Now" at the end of installation
Alyx ;)

The list goes on...

[kolor12]

Physic!!!!!
Storyline...
Graphic

[Smith]

the physics, probably, and the storyline.

[PainLord]

The fact that there will be something NEW to talk about on the forum.

The game itself and MODS!

[jabberwock95]

Physics definately.
I'm going to spend an hour walking round moving/dropping/shooting things. I would be more excited about the graphics but my card is old so... Maybe when I see the graphics I will get excited but I don't want to get my hopes up. The storyline will come third.

[draven]

Definitely the physics for me as well. The game looks to great as a whole, but I just love playing games that simulate real-life physics. It just takes the game to a whole other level.

Oh and the MODS too. I can't wait to see what some people are going to do with this engine. Hell, I might even learn some C myself and play around in it.

[DigitalAssassin]

Originally posted by jabberwock95
Physics definately.
I'm going to spend an hour walking round moving/dropping/shooting things...

Me too... :D

[Saltpeter]

Mods, GFX and the physics to top it off...

[spitcodfry]

what are u most excited about in half life 2?

First up would be the physics and interacting with everything in the environment. Experimenting in every situation possible via physics to take down enemies.

Second most thing I'm excited about is how it'll look on my AIW 9800 Pro :) Not to mention the water effects and fiddling with tossing different objects in to see how they react. I'm a sucker for everything water-related when it comes to games.

[jabberwock95]

Waaaahhhhh... People with 9800 pros just keep rubbing it in!! 10 more days of this. You people should be thankful that you're sitting stroking your good graphics card while im overclocking to push every drop of performance out of my Ti4200. I personally comfort mysely with the fact that it will run on a 32mb TNT2, and a GeForce 4 is MUCH better than that, so it has to be all good stuff!

*confident attitude collapses in a heap* :bounce:

aaaarrrrgggg... You people don't know how lucky you are....

[DigitalAssassin]

I'm rather worried about how well it'll run on my Radeon 9700. Any idea what will give me the biggest performance boost for the lowest 'cost'? (Disabling FSAA and Anisotropic filtering for starts.)

[spitcodfry]

Originally posted by jabberwock95
aaaarrrrgggg... You people don't know how lucky you are....

Yeah I really lucked out...convinced my parents to get it for me a month before my b-day (which is actually today), if I agreed to pay for half of it. My local Comp USA was having a great deal on the card for like only two weeks! An instant saver of $50 which put it at the same retail price as a regular 9800 Pro plus free installation.

Dude I'm sure you'll be fine...just no fancy dx 9 stuff...which in the long run really doesn't matter gameplay-wise. When I was there Gabe said they were currently optimizing for Geforce 2s, so I'm sure you'll run just dandy.

[sayam]

... everything.

[spitcodfry]

Originally posted by DigitalAssassin
Any idea what will give me the biggest performance boost for the lowest 'cost'?

Memory...but if you already have 512 then you'll be fine IMO...in the past several months I added an additional 512 to my default 256...but that was because everything ran like crap on XP...it's such a damn memory hog.

[mouse]

the story and ill be spending a long time just fiddling with that manipulator gun wonder if it will let me pick up a live headcrab and lob it at barney.

[GinSlinger]

Killing things.....killing things a lot. And bashing things.

[Blair]

The G-Man, I can't wait to see him again. I'm such a big fan. :D

[jabberwock95]

Originally posted by spitcodfry
Dude I'm sure you'll be fine...just no fancy dx 9 stuff...which in the long run really doesn't matter gameplay-wise. When I was there Gabe said they were currently optimizing for Geforce 2s, so I'm sure you'll run just dandy.

Thanks, I hope your wisdom turns out to be correct. Anyways, im currently using powerstrip to push every drop out of this card. I actually found out my card memory was running at a lower speed than reccomended... I was outraged. Good thing, i've manage to push the mem clock from 445mhz to 600 and the CPU clock from 250 to 280 with no ill effects. I know this shortens the life of the card, but i've got performance profiles saved so I can keep it at default speeds unless i want to play HL2. Sorry for going off-topic and being longwinded, but im just getting into overclocking. Hmmmm, maybe if i bought a fan I could push the card some more ...

*trails off wordlessly*

BTW thanks again spitcodfry :cheers:

[Joneleth]

A GF4 will run the game just fine.

[He@t!]

Originally posted by jabberwock95
Physics definately.
I'm going to spend an hour walking round moving/dropping/shooting things. I would be more excited about the graphics but my card is old so... Maybe when I see the graphics I will get excited but I don't want to get my hopes up. The storyline will come third.


Same here juss gonna mess around for the first 1-2 hours!! Then really play!!

[N0N1337H41]

I'm most excited about being able to make a Prince and the New Power Generation mod with the source engine!

[spitcodfry]

Originally posted by jabberwock95
BTW thanks again spitcodfry :cheers:

No problem m8 :)

[SixxHole]

Im most excited about...Alyx!

[Yatta]

I'm looking forward to the graphics. I've never seen a game look so real! It's like an R-Rated Pixar movie done in real time! :eek:

[MrWhite]

I'm mostly looking forward to Half-Life 2 -- The whole damn thing

[Gorgon]

Originally posted by MrWhite
I'm mostly looking forward to Half-Life 2 -- The whole damn thing


Excatly.

:cheers:

[SLH]

Seeing what mods arrise from source and seeing what i can do with it.

[Cypher19]

Definitely the physics, and how it applies to the gameplay. I think that this game will really piss people off in other games as the players ask things like "How come the wood blocking this door won't break" or "Why can't I push this cabinet around to block a door", etc.

[Woggy]

The editor, SDK, etc.
I usualy play with editors before playing the actual game :eek:
If the SDK doesnt ship with the game, I guess Im looking forward to the WHOLE game, I just wanna play!

[droper]

i want to see raging battles between several inter-demensional species in a war torn city 17. That would be cool. Also want to get in that giant skyscraper I have a feeling thats going to be really interesting.

[ice101]

Finding out more about this G-man fellow.

Dun dun dahhhhhhhh

And everything else

[Agent4054]

Originally posted by sayam
... everything.

you took the word right out of my mouth. EVERYTHING! Even the new Hammer!

Oh, but the sounds.... I can't wait! The sounds BETTER be good. Too many games nowadays lack totally awesome sound.

[Stereo]

Well - Besides looking forward to EVERYTHING that has been mention so far in this discussion - I am really looking forward to coming back here in a couple of months and discussing Half-Life 3.

[D00M]

* The absolutely beautiful new graphics

* The manipulator gun

* New enemies to fight

* City 17

[x84D80Yx]

*graphics

*physics

*the manipulator

*vehicles

;x

[[[LuCkY]]]

The storyline. There is so much that is unanswered.....I finished HL1 mystified.

[smithgdwg]

The thing Im most anticipating is

THE CROWBAR!!!

Cant wait to see what mischeif I can have with that thing once again. :cheese:

[A2597]

The game...

[RabidMeatloaf]

I'm excited about playing the game at .5 fps all the way through! WOO!



I think I'm mosltly excited about everything the game will have to offer, graphics, storyline, ect.

[kill-9]

Originally posted by forn1x
the new mods, imagine what TF2 / CS2 / etc will be like!

Exactly. The multiplayer should be *unbelievable*. I only hope they've found a way to prevent cheating.

[carramrod]

Mostly the new storyline, and also the fact that it is HALF-LIFE2!

P.S. Does anyone know how well this'll run on a GeForce4 440 GO?

[Joneleth]

P.S. Does anyone know how well this'll run on a GeForce4 440 GO?

Not good? :P

Heh, actually the engine should be scalable enough that it'll run just fine... Just might not look fantastic.

[carramrod]

Originally posted by Joneleth

Heh, actually the engine should be scalable enough that it'll run just fine... Just might not look fantastic. [/B]

Sweet since i have no money for an upgrade:cheese:

[.5c0ut-WHoR3.]

Im most excited is that i can eat PIE and play hl2 at the same time.

[Apocalypse89]

*first post in this forum*

Well I'm looking forward to:

1. Vehicles. Judging from the E3 demo the vehicles look like they rock! And they seem just as fun to drive, if not more fun to drive, than the vehicles in BF1942. And I love BF1942!
2. physics. Message to all Combine soldiers:"beware of flying radiators"
3. Storyline. Although I haven't finished HL1 yet.(although I'm rapidly trying to complete it nowadays) I really want some answers to some of the Q's presented in that game. Who's the adminstrator? WHo's the G-man? Are these two linked? Do headcrabs make good pie? Yummmm Pieeee
4. Basically everything else the game has to offer

I'm no graphics freak. I personally think that graphics can make a good game look much more polished(as is the case in HL2) but they can NEVER EVER EVER make a bad game good or good game bad. I still enjoy playing HL1 even though the graphics are not up to today's standards.

[-Yo-]

realism and hope it will do like i was playing doom for the first time... fears :D

[lhauert]

For the game to come out !!!

[Masta_B]

well i don't really care about the GFX
i'm really exciting is the gameplay and story

[Reiska]

Im most excited (along with physics and graphics) about ton of small details valve has put in for sure.

[Frank]

I'm excited about getting back into the Half-Life world...

[PvtRyan]

Experiencing the story like in HL1.
Looking forward to the AI too, and the skirmishes between Xen and Combine too, those rocked in HL1 (with the marines instead of combine ofcoz)

Don't really care about the mods right now, don't expect the first good one until Q1 2004. A year after the release of bf1942, we finally get the first REAL total conversions.

[Paradox]

The Character Animation, (just plain spooky) and the physics.

[CrazyHarij]

Im excited about absolutely EVERYTHING in the game, but if i had to pick , i'd choose the Source engine and the AI.

[H2HSnake]

MODS ands SDK and HL2 itself,but mods and SDK first.

[draven]

Is the manipulator going to be in the game? I am talking about the one from the tech demo. The tractor-beam one. I really hope that is in the game. The grabber weapon is cool, but it looks like it only grabs-then-shoots. I want to pick something up, hold it there then drop it. Or, pick something up and swing it around wildly, using it as a melee weapon. Oh the possibilities.

[SLH]

Originally posted by draven
Is the manipulator going to be in the game?

Yes. And it'll gradually get upgraded throughout SP.

[Insert]

Gameplay and story probably.

[Dougy]

Walking into my local gamestore and casting my eyes on the giant rack full off HL2 cases!